Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

OilRig Description : According to MITRE , OilRig is a threat group with suspected Iranian origins that has targeted Middle Eastern and international victims since at least 2014. Indeed during the group_a, the main observed delivery techniques where about Phishing (rif.T1193) and Valid Accounts (rif.T1078). Pierluigi Paganini.

Computers and Electronics 80

Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing DNS Phishing 80

Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2019

Security expert uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign targeting organizations in various industries worldwide and suspects Iranian APT groups. It is interesting to note that FireEye confirmed that this campaign is different from other operations carried out by Iranian APT groups due to the use of DNS hijacking at scale.

DNS 82

DNS Telecommunications Government Encryption 82

Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2019

Then, depending on the returned value, it runs a couple of privilege escalation exploits able to bypass the UAC (User Account Control) feature, a well known security mechanism introduced since Vista to avoid unauthorized system configuration changes. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Malware 70

Malware Advertising DNS Antivirus 70

SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

In June, more than six months after DarkHalo had gone dark, we observed the DNS hijacking of multiple government zones of a CIS member state that allowed the attacker to redirect traffic from government mail servers to computers under their control – probably achieved by obtaining credentials to the control panel of the victims’ registrar.

Malware 89

Malware Banking Energy and Utilities Accountability 89

Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli published the findings of a quick analysis of the webmask project standing behind the DNS attacks implemented by APT34 (aka OilRig and HelixKitten ). Contest: Since at least 2014, an Iranian threat group tracked by FireEye as APT34 has conducted reconnaissance aligned with the strategic interests of Iran.

DNS 77

DNS Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing Government 77

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 26, 2022

AES-256 encryption for data at rest and TLS v1.2 The youngest of companies picked for this year’s list, Kentik has been a budding networking monitoring vendor since 2014. Reviews highlight the ease of setup and integration with standard APIs , component monitoring capabilities, and intelligent network traffic analysis.

Marketing 120

Marketing DDOS Threat Detection DNS 120

ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Vamosi: In the fall of 2014, Shellshock was publicly disclosed. Not only do I get a much faster time to market, I don’t have to worry about rolling my own encryption. Really, never roll your own encryption. Our story now skips ahead twenty years to 2014. And it's a doozy program. Just don’t. Now, what to fuzz?

Software 52

Software Passwords Internet Internet 52

ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Vamosi: In the fall of 2014, Shellshock was publicly disclosed. Not only do I get a much faster time to market, I don’t have to worry about rolling my own encryption. Really, never roll your own encryption. Our story now skips ahead twenty years to 2014. And it's a doozy program. Just don’t. Now, what to fuzz?

Software 52

Software Passwords Internet Internet 52

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

It's the address on Aadhaar's Twitter account , it's the first result on a Google search and time and time again, it's promoted as the site people should go to before doing anything else Aadhaar related. But as I've written before, there's a lot more to HTTPS than simply redirecting all the traffic ). Check the registered number from: [link].

Hacking 279

Hacking Government Risk Encryption 279

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Continuing to analyze the code, we reconstructed the approach used by the attacker to obfuscate the payload: all the necessary information has been encrypted, splitted, and then encoded in Base64 chunks stored into different structures named as “ta” , “t_ep” , “t_eq”. The “Dns” Plugin. Initialization of basic malware information.

Malware 60

Malware DNS Architecture Advertising 60

eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

Since the 1970s, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) has offered encryption , authentication, bootstrapping, and digital signatures to secure digital communications. As encryption methods go, AES-128 and RSA-2048 are vulnerable to quantum attacks. More robust security for Domain Name Systems (DNS). Next-Generation Cryptography.

Cybersecurity 135

Cybersecurity Cryptocurrency Technology Energy and Utilities 135

Malwarebytes

MAY 9, 2023

The fourth was the most interesting, because it communicates with a new Dropbox account. The configuration was encrypted, and looked like this: Config file forms the end of ntuser.dat That configuration was encrypted using AES. First of all, we see a new Dropbox account being used. The object field was also revealing.

Surveillance 71

Surveillance Accountability DNS Encryption 71

SecureList

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Trickbot (aka TrickLoader or Trickster), is a successor of the Dyre banking Trojan that was active from 2014 to 2016 and performed man-in-the-browser attacks in order to steal banking credentials. Downloaded modules are encrypted, and can be decrypted with the Python script below. Trickbot was first discovered in October 2016.

Banking 138

Banking Passwords VPN Internet 138

Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Criminals used UPX packer to protect malware code written in Go and a RSA public certificate is hardcoded inside malware to encrypt all user’s target files. This finding results in a simple “key” to encrypt all the infected victims. However, the RSA public key used to encrypt the target files is static and hardcoded inside ransomware.

Ransomware 81

Ransomware Encryption Malware Cyber Attacks 81

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

They hack into their teacher’s account and leave messages making fun of him. Air Force research facility, discover a password “sniffer” has been installed onto their network, compromising more than 100 user accounts. banks using the Zeus Trojan virus to crack open bank accounts and divert money to Eastern Europe.

Cybercrime 135

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Criminals used UPX packer to protect malware code written in Go and a RSA public certificate is hardcoded inside malware to encrypt all user’s target files. This finding results in a simple “key” to encrypt all the infected victims. However, the RSA public key used to encrypt the target files is static and hardcoded inside ransomware.

Ransomware 40

Ransomware Encryption Malware Cyber Attacks 40